Advertisement

Browse Subject Areas

?

Click through the PLOS taxonomy to find articles in your field.

For more information about PLOS Subject Areas, click here.

Geologic time

Pahon Cave, Gabon: New insights into the Later Stone Age in the African rainforest

Marie-Josée Angue Zogo, Isis Mesfin, Geoffroy de Saulieu, Wim Van Neer, Els Cornelissen, David Pleurdeau, Richard Oslisly

published 10 Dec 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Postcranial anatomy of the Late Miocene Eurasian hornless rhinocerotid Chilotherium

Panagiotis Kampouridis, Georgia Svorligkou, Nikolai Spassov, Madelaine Böhme

published 05 Dec 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

LA-ICP-MS Zircon U-Pb Ages, geochemical characteristics, and geological significance of the early cretaceous volcanic rocks in Haitangwan Town, Southern Hainan Island, China

Yihua Lin, Dingyong Liang, Qinmin Yuan, Zailong Hu, Zhaoying Lv, Changyan Lv

published 04 Dec 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Morphotypes, preservation, and taphonomy of dinosaur footprints, tail traces, and swim tracks in the largest tracksite in the world: Carreras Pampa (Upper Cretaceous), Torotoro National Park, Bolivia

Raúl Esperante, Jeremy A. McLarty, Kevin E. Nick, Lance R. Pompe, Roberto E. Biaggi, Helen D. Baltazar Medina, Nelson A. Llempen, Ángela B. Limachi Silvestri, Lourdes Lidia Mamani Quispe, Antonio Joaquín Garre Cano, Wilson Quiroga Saavedra, Germán Rocha Rodríguez

published 03 Dec 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Age is just a number: Examining the preservation of cells and soft tissues in Bothriolepis and other Devonian fish

Christopher L. Rogoff, Paul V. Ullmann

published 03 Dec 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Distribution and characteristics of rearranged hopanes in the black shale of the Chang 9 member, the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Ansai area, Ordos Basin, North China

Han Yue, Yan Liu, Rongxi Li, Xuefeng Liu

published 01 Dec 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Origins of the hydrothermal dolomites in Middle Permian, Sichuan Basin (SW China): Implication for the relationship with the Emeishan Large Igneous Province

Haofu Zheng, Jiajun He, Xiong Duan, Bo Liu, Anna Travé Herrero, Juan Diego Martín-Martín, Enrique Gómez Rivas

published 20 Nov 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Glass factory found: Basinwide (600 km) preservation of sponges on the Phosphoria glass ramp, Permian, USA

Zackery Wistort, Leif Tapanila, William Moynihan, Kathleen Ritterbush

published 12 Nov 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Paleontological and paleoecological significance of the oldest highly productive Upper Cretaceous (lowermost Maastrichtian) bonebed of Haţeg Basin (western Romania; Densuş-Ciula Formation)

Gábor Botfalvai, Zoltán Csiki-Sava, János Magyar, Barna Páll-Gergely, Levente Koczó, Daniel Ţabără, Gergő Konecsni, Soma Budai

published 10 Nov 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Phylogenomics of sigmodontine rodents (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae): Cloud forests and Pliocene extinction explain the timing and spread of an iconic South American radiation

Max R. Bangs, Alexandre Reis Percequillo, Víctor Pacheco, Scott J. Steppan

published 04 Nov 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Clay minerals evidences for coldn-warm fluctuations in the Early Silurian

Zhibo Zhang, Jiaming Zhang, Hengye Wei, Huan Li, Yinghai Guo, Chunlin Zeng

published 29 Oct 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared

Anastasia Nikulina, Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, Marco Davoli, Elena A. Pearce, Jens-Christian Svenning, Dave van Wees, Ralph Fyfe, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, Fulco Scherjon

published 22 Oct 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Characteristics and genesis of permian chert in the middle and upper Yangtze Region, China

Da-zhi Zhang, Jin-xiong Luo, Bin Feng, You-bin He, Zhan Wen

published 17 Oct 2025

Loading metrics information...

Metrics unavailable. Please check back later.

Advertisement

Create a weekly email alert for: Geologic time

You can change these options by clicking profile then "Alerts and Notifications"